10 QUESTIONS: Kanye West, hip-hop's brightest star, on God, girls and school 8
LETTERS 14
NOTEBOOK
Behind Kerik's Fall Plus: Ukraine's toxic politics; Snow's survival; IBM fires the PC; the great whiskey gap 21
MILESTONES: Mia Hamm retires; Dick Clark recuperates 29
WORLD
The Army's Armor Gap How a lack of safe combat vehicles put U.S. troops at risk 30
THE Best Pictures OF THE Year
The most compelling images, from Baghdad's bloodshed to Saturn's brilliance 61
SIX WHO SAW: A tribute to great photographers we lost 116
NATION
The Gubernator Arnold still wins the popular vote, but can his one-man...
